STILL LIFE - I

 The smoke has finally lessened enough that I could get back to my outside painting of Still Lifes.  

Today's letter is I:

Before all that wonderful stuff above, I was in the studio putting bindings on quilts:

I also made the binding and sewed it onto the back on the Yuki quilt.  I forgot to take pictures though.

NEW IRON - LAURASTAR

 I splurged and got a new iron, a Laurastar Lift.  It was on sale.

Lots of steam, all the time.  And hopefully, no leaks.

MOVING THINGS AROUND

First thing this morning I started looking for a new iron, since mine died yesterday.  Can't do much sewing without an iron.  I thought about getting a 'tank' type iron - but they are expensive and I decided against it mainly because of the way my ironing board is set up.  I don't know where I would put the tank and have it be accessible yet out of my way.

So, when I found the professional Rowenta model I settle on I found the best price on Amazon.  I ordered it and was surprised to see that it would be delivered today, before 6pm, still free shipping.  Amazing.  [And it was.]

In the meantime, I cut out pieces and put them on the wall.  At the end of the morning, I wasn't really happy with it and spent some time moving a few groups around.

I was amazed when I downloaded these pictures of the quilt and the flowers - the colors are very similar.  Hmmm.

I took a picture of the Coneflowers so I could paint them into my journal.  It was hard to get the deep red/orange of the flowers right on this paper.  But I like it.